Howe Gelb has traveled many a long and dusty mile to get to his place of prominence as an elder statesman of freewheeling Americana and “Erosion Rock”; A brand of music changing with the elements on a daily basis as nature intended, like giant sand, believing that continuous evolution should be a palpable element in music, as when when songs were first handed over again and again, before the frozen capture of a recording studio.
Howe Gelb | Vortexas
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bEBTHcmTGk
Born in 1956, had moved to Tucson, Arizona, as a teen in the early 1970s after his home was destroyed by flood back in Pennsylvania. When not on the road, he lives with his family in Barrio Santa Rosa. Although “Endlessly restlessly wanderlusted encrusted”, he’s well settled in the desert caliche where it takes him an hour to dig a small hole in the desert floor, there where the sunrise hurts.
Howe Gelb | Triangulate
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=C38NcqI2RR8
The Arizona desert has been a predominant theme and source of inspiration for Gelb. Since 1985, Gelb has brought the spirit of the southwest and high art to his DIY recordings. Gelb’s newest recording, The Coincidentalist, is his first album for his new label, New West Records. Recorded with M. Ward and Steve Shelley (of Sonic Youth), Gelb brings together a set of songs that seem linked, like a novel but effortless stand on their own. The record also features guest contributions from Bonnie Prince Billy and KT Tunstall.
Howe Gelb
Saturday, 06 March 2014 | 20:30 CET
Magnet | Falckensteinstr. 48 | 10997 Berlin/Kreuzberg
